It’s easier to think of the MongoDB layer as a “cache” and the Oracle store as the persistent copy. If there’s a cache miss (that is, missing data in MongoDB), the services fall back to recover the data from Oracle and make further downstream calls to recompute the cart.

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One of our stretch goals is to look into deploying HSMs. If there are bugs in the underlying software, the integrity of the entire system could be compromised thus voiding any guarantees we try to keep. While bugs are inevitable, moving critical cryptographic functions into secure hardware will mitigate their impact.